Sentence examples for contemporary venture from inspiring English sources

Between 1938 and 1940, French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin invented Twitter and Facebook's business model though, unfortunately for de Chardin, the academy of his time proved less gullible than contemporary venture capitalists.

Contemporary venture capitalists almost never operate beyond a seven-year time horizon.

Michael Tippett, Britten's compatriot and contemporary, ventured further in his 1970 opera, "The Knot Garden," whose ensemble cast includes Dov, a gay white musician, and Mel, a bisexual black writer.

While many of his contemporaries ventured into sculptural techniques, Mr. Heino adhered to the household-container model, producing variations on "a vessel format," in the words of Christy Johnson, director of the five-year-old American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, Calif., which owns several of Mr. Heino's pieces.

Very few contemporary filmmakers venture so boldly or grandly onto the primordial terrain of philosophical and religious inquiry where the answers to basic and perennial questions seem to lie.

This collaboration between jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and the much-acclaimed classical soprano Renée Fleming is entirely a contemporary-classical venture.

Rihanna did military chic in her "Hard" video (she even straddled a tank), and just about every one of Perry's pop contemporaries have ventured down the same path.

Few contemporary American playwrights venture as intrepidly into foreign hot zones as J. T. ROGERS does.

Programming a major contemporary opera is a venture in the same vein.

The Odeon, its first venture into "contemporary", is the work of architect Alexandre Giraldi, purveyor of a kind of flash mogul-moderne.

The boldness of Ms. Krall's leap recalls Barbra Streisand's first venture into contemporary music and Linda Ronstadt's sudden embrace of traditional pop (a gesture some feel justifies her exclusion from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame).